Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] on to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For another , has the Scottish Tourist Board not cottoned on to the fact that this Sunday sailings issue is good copy . |
| 2 | During debates in the House , the offending Mapplethorpe photographs were not brought on to the floor lest they offend the ‘ decorum ’ of the House . |
| 3 | Outside contractors are not brought on to the University 's premises except by prior agreement with the University ; |
| 4 | I , the only one of his children who had not gone on to the stage , had inherited the famous Breakspear eyes , the Breakspear height , the Breakspear cheekbones , the brooding Breakspear presence that my father had used to break the hearts of unnumbered women . |
| 5 | This was not passed on to the planning committee . |
| 6 | This was why they had n't caught on to the idea of the ground being curved , not flat — and so had to invent an imaginary force to explain what was going on . |
| 7 | Other medieval houses that are replicated medieval houses just have n't got on to the textiles in the way that we have . |
| 8 | " Oh do n't get the wrong idea — I was n't driven on to the streets through grief , or nothing like that . |
| 9 | He was glad he had n't gone on to the Reserve after the Armistice , as Tubby had — though , if he had , he would have stayed retired . |